Social Mobility and Modernization: A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader. (Reviews).Social Mobility and Modernization modernization Transformation of a society from a rural and agrarian condition to a secular, urban, and industrial one. It is closely linked with industrialization. As societies modernize, the individual becomes increasingly important, gradually replacing the family, : A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg Robert I. Rotberg , Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, is Director of the Belfer Center's Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, as well as President of the World Peace Foundation and a member of the Belfer (Cambridge, Mass., London: The MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2000. 360pp. $25/paper). Modern social history is looking back to thirty years of rising activity. It changed dramatically during this period and was definitely broadened by the cultural history of the 1980's and 1990's. In recent years the debate on social history calmed down. This is a good moment to look back and to reflect on what has been reached and what has been missed. The volume by Robert I. Rotberg illustrates the merits. The dozen articles of the volume can be seen as a tour d'horizon of thirty years of social history of the American study of social history covering primarily Europe. They are a selection of the best articles of the Journal of Interdisciplinary History by Robert I. Rotberg, the co-editor of the journal. They treat various standard themes of social history such as social mobility, class structure, industrialization industrialization Process of converting to a socioeconomic order in which industry is dominant. The changes that took place in Britain during the Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and 19th century led the way for the early industrializing nations of western Europe and , social unrest, social inequality, women, the origins of nationalism from the middle ages until the present and cover mainly France, England, and the US. Highly influential articles by leading US historians such as David Herlihy David Herlihy (1930 – 1991) was an American historian who wrote on medieval and renaissance life. Particular topics include domestic life, especially the roles of women, and the changing structure of the family. on social mobility in medieval France, by Franklin Mendels on social mobility and industrialization, by Louise Tilly on riots in 19th century France, by Michael Katz on social class in 19th century America cities are included. In this way the dozen articles of the volume document the mostly moderately quantitative structural US social history of the 1970's and 1980's, with two additional more recent articles. The volume is useful if one does not have direct access to the JIH JIH Journal of Industrial Hemp JIH Japan Information Highway and if one wishes to have easy entry to classical articles. More in-depth information on the social history of these topics, the periods and most of the European countries is provided by the recently published six volume Encyclopedia of European Social History edited by Peter Stearns Peter Stearns is a professor of history at George Mason University, where he is currently provost (since January 1, 2000) with almost 40 years of experience as a teacher and administrator behind him. . |
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